What do you do when you need to write down a phonetic transcription?

 

The PhoTransEdit website not only provides a phonetic keyboard, but also provides an automatic phonemic transcription service.

Text to Phonetics

Text2Phonetics is a PhoTransEdit Online application that transcribes small English texts into broad phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

For free.

On-line.

If you’d rather work offline, it allows you to download the program, which has more features than the online version, such as finding rhyming words and sound wildcards.

 

Take a peek at this example:

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“Furthermore, it can only transcribe those words that are found in its database. If they aren’t there, you can help by adding them to it.”

 

phonetic transcription in Received Pronunciation

| ˌfɜːðəˈmɔː | ɪt kən ˈəʊnli trænˈskraɪb ðəʊz ˈwɜːdz ðət ə faʊnd ɪn ɪts ˈdeɪtəbeɪs | ɪf ˈðeɪ ɑːnt ðeə | ju kən help baɪ ˈædɪŋ ðəm tu ɪt |

 

phonetic transcription in AmE

| ˈfɝːðərˌmɔːr | ˈɪt kən ˈoʊnli trænˈskraɪb ðoʊz ˈwɝːdz ðət ər ˈfaʊnd ɪn ˈɪts ˈdeɪtəˌbes | ˈɪf ˈðeɪ ˈɑːrənt ðer | ju kən ˈhelp baɪ ˈædɪŋ ðəm tə ˈɪt |